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[-] rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Can we just dismiss Google in general?

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Cicraft@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] Dankry@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

My favorite part was when the Firefox Mozilla’d all over the internet.

[-] Sygheil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's Mozillin' time

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago

That's good, but as long as Chrome has 2/3rds of the browser market share, it doesn't really matter what other browsers do.

At this point I think the thing most likely to derail WEI are the US Congress and the EU. Google is flirting with getting forced to split-up like AT&T and this may be the last straw. They may decide it's not worth the extra attention from law makers to move forward with it.

[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope that the rest of the space including the W3C sticking to their guns and opposing Web Environment Integrity prevents this from doing too much damage, but Chrome's monopoly is already at such an extent that many websites only test on Chrome, and a few outright require it. As long as this is implemented in Chrome, and if people who use it get more return from ads as the proposal suggests, some websites will be willing to implement it.

This is definitely seeing more and stronger opposition than the Encrypted Media Extensions proposal, but my fear is that it will go in that direction; if big websites implement it, Mozilla, Vivaldi, and W3C will eventually cave despite their initial opposition.

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate it. But safe bet, your right about Mozilla, & Vivaldi caving.

[-] jungekatz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Quite sure google will go aheah and implement it anyway !!

[-] deadcream@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They already did (I'm not sure if it is already released to user but code is in Chromium).

[-] Fibby@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I've been using Chrome forever and been thinking more and more of switching back to Firefox.

I'm just too lazy :(

[-] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

The time to switch back is now

[-] Fibby@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You're right. Today's the day. After work I'm switching to Firefox, again.

[-] Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

If you find any issues like Google services not working quite as well on Firefox, don't forget you can spoof your user agent to look like Chrome so you still get the extra features such as live scoring for sports etc in search.

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